hoffman big daddy help NOW WITH PICS!!!!

[spinmaster]

have purchased a early (i think) hoffman big daddy but i don't think the forks are the originals. they don't have the bits for the screw in pegs that i've seen on others and the finish it different to the rest of the frame but knowing nothing about this bike i could be wrong. any hoffman gurus out there that could help out? will post up pics later

[harris]

ygt seems to no alot about them 

[Stodgy]

Yep, YGT or Mark Fuzzyfella are your best bet Jim.

 

[TwoBobRob]

OK,  I stand to be corrected on this but from memory I think that all Hoffman forks had peg bosses on them; early ones were smaller I think but there all the same.

Early u.s. made frames will have slightly tattier welding and no HB stamp in the gusset. All will be 1" headset, the very earliest forks were conventional headset also. A bit later on they went to 1" Ahead which saw the introduction of the Hoffman SuperFork and stem combo which used a massive hollow bolt to secure everything down.

Thats all I can remember for the minute, hope it helps 

Oh yeah, one last thing;  A lot of flatlanders don't like to use pegs on bosses as it screws with their balance as you're not riding directly on the axle, if you see what I mean... so it wouldn't surprise me at all if the forks were something other than SuperForks. 

[theRuler]

Early u.s. made frames will have slightly tattier welding

you'll get struck by lightening if you say that on vintage 

[Wayne Ryder]

I had a Big Daddy for a while. No screw-in forks, I'm pretty sure about that, and there was a HB stamp or etch on the gusset.

[harris]

early ones 10mm rear dropouts  newer 14 mm

[TwoBobRob]

I had a Big Daddy for a while. No screw-in forks, I'm pretty sure about that, and there was a HB stamp or etch on the gusset.

Yeah, no doubt.  The later ones after 95ish, were made in Taiwan to slightly higher standards and had the cool HB stamp on the gusset   

[TwoBobRob]

Early u.s. made frames will have slightly tattier welding

you'll get struck by lightening if you say that on vintage 

     Fook 'em   

[spinmaster]

cheers for the help guys, got some pics here. mine has box type rear bridge and no stamp on gusset only a serial number on rear drop out which is B40114, anyone know anything about that? forks you can see in the pic have no peg mounts and no other markings as to what make they are.

cheers 

[harris]

yes mate early and the same as all mine i have on more modern cool rides grab them all up
 :daumenhoch:forks not the same but look the job

[spinmaster]

yeh the forks are similar and weigh a ton but i don't think they're hoffman

[Bren Gunn]

Cool frame, is that nickel plating?

[spinmaster]

yeh it is, looks nicer in the pics than it does here, needs a clean but could look great when done.